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Beginning Smartphone Web Development

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Mobile web development is very current nowadays and the books out there now is very slim in explaining all the technologies that are neccessary. This book is a godsend for web developers who really need a reference book on understanding what issues and concerns must be taken on trying to get your mobile web page viewable on the thousands of different web platforms there are.

Web browsers in mobile devices aim to comply with web and mobile industry standards. The author teaches you the standards, best practices and development techniques for building interactive mobile web pages for browsers in smartphones and other mobile devices.

The standards-based mobile web browser is the most promising cross-platform mobile technology. The author based this book on his courses he teaches based upon his many years of experiennce in deploying mobile web applications around the world.

The examples are easy to follow and help get you up and running in a short time.

Its a great book and should be in your computer book library.

It is a very well written book. The book provides a very good overview and a overall birds eye view of most of the mobile platforms. This book is not in depth, but thats exactly what the title says 'Beginning'. If you want in depth you can view some of their other series. The book is like a movie trailer, if you want to see the whole movie, there are other book by the same publisher, and same series. Its great for people who don't want to get into the details, but would like to select their favorite mobile platform, by seeing what every platform has to offer. The language and style is excellent, and the information flows smoothly. The book does contain codes and examples to try. The book help a starter to navigate the complex waters of mobile platform development with great ease. Highly recommended for mobile platform starters.

This book is an excellent source of information for the mobile web developer. It assumes you have prior knowledge of web development and takes you straight in to the mobile web. The information presented is extremely relevant. There is a section about useful add-ons for Firefox as a tool for web development. There are references about the MIME types used in mobile web. I specially liked the four case studies which examined four popular mobile web sites: Bank of America, CNN, Flickr and Wikipedia. The book also is supported by code examples in their website which is especially useful in web development.
It ends with a chapter interviewing a panel of experts about the future of mobile web which was very interesting and comprehensive.
Altogether, I highly recommend this book to experienced developers looking to create mobile web content. I plan to use the newly acquired knowledge to create the mobile web version of my protesting web site (BeMeProtest).

This book covers a lot of information. Yes, it's not a programming book that shows you how a project is done. However, it is a book that tells you the odds and ends that you'd need to pay attention to as a mobile developer. Like another reviewer said this actually feels like lecture notes from a seminar. It expects that you have some ideas of what HTML, Javascript and CSS is. It would cover the strategy to support multiple handset families. Using javascript with Webkit browers, optimization for handset, mobile UI design... If you are a Web developer trying to find out what it takes to make the content compatible to mobile handsets, this is a nice book to have because it covers the issues that one would have to know to order to be successful with making the web content mobile friendly.

This book turned out to have some solid information on figuring out the designing and packaging concepts you need to keep in mind when setting up an appliction for a tiny screen hand held device. Forget complex rich-media site artwork that makes people linger on a widescreen monitor and think focused task operated by thumbs. Reminds me of the efficiency principles from the days of 3278's and VT100's in a way ... there's not a lot of room for noise factor on a screen the size of a playing card. The book emphasizes this and shows a number of good examples. The section on style guide planning the top, middle and bottom sections of a display page was worth the price of the book.

The book is good if you are a beginner and covers a variety of Mobile device and lot of topics related to mobile design and development. I really liked the tips on designing mobile web sites, which I think has became of paramount important now a days.

Pros: This book is rich in information. It covers all major carriers and smartphones in good detail. If you know HTML and general web languages already it should be simple to get started. It may be titled "begginning", however it is very extensive into low level information.

Cons: Not on the book, it is great. Setting up the environment to simulate/emulate smartphones on your PC will take some time.

Based on what the book showed and the title I expected that it would have had more details as to how to create the apps but details are quite limited. Book was not looking shiny and new but was ok for that price.

The book has the necessary content for absolute beginners and is a complete breeze for developers like me. Easy to use, enough content and fun.

Delivered in good condition too.

Even though I am a .NET developer, I found the book contained a lot of information that is relevant to my future plans. Mobile is here to stay and growing exponetially. So to stay ahead of the curve, as a developer, you need to keep up with current technology and, this book is a great starting point. My thanks to the authors for sharing their hard earned knowledge.